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Leopold II of Belgium
King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909
Berlin Conference
international conference that regulated the distribution of European colonization and trade in Africa
Congo Free State
area in Central Africa controlled by Leopold II of Belgium (1885–1908)
Marie Henriette of Austria
queen consort of Belgium
Royal Palace of Brussels
palace in Brussels, Belgium
Cinquantenaire Park
The ' (; ) or ' (; ) is a large urban public park of in the easternmost part of the European Quarter in Brussels, Belgium.
Royal Museum for Central Africa
ethnography, natural history and history museum in Tervuren, Belgium
International Association of the Congo
association founded on 17 November 1879 by Leopold II of Belgium to further his interests in the Congo and recognised by the Berlin Conference as sovereign over the territories it controlled
International African Association
front organization
Order of Leopold II
order of Belgium
Caroline Lacroix
Royal mistress (1883–1948)
Atrocities in the Congo Free State
atrocities perpetrated in the Congo Free State (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) which, at the time, was a colony under the personal rule of King Leopold II of Belgium
Royal Greenhouses of Laeken
heated greenhouses in the park of the Royal Castle of Laeken i
Gennaro Rubino
Italian anarchist (1859–1918)
Villa La Léopolda
villa in the French town of Villefranche-sur-Mer on the French Riviera
Émile Banning
academic, civil servant (1836–1898)
Anglo-Belgian Indian Rubber Company
company that exploited natural rubber in the Congo
Royal Trust
organization
statue of Leopold II
statue in Ekeren, Antwerp, Belgium
Committee for Studies of the Upper Congo